Web of Evil

Publication of Quality Comics

Web of Evil

Publication information
Publisher| Quality Comics
Genre| Horror
Publication date| November 1952 - December 1954
No. of issues| 21
Creative team
Artist(s)| Jack Cole

Web of Evil is a publication of Quality Comics,[1] which began in November 1952. The comic had a run of twenty-one issues.,[2] the final issue being #21 (December 1954).[3] Comics historian Nicky Wright has described Web of Evil as an inferior imitation of Exciting Comics' style horror comics.[1]

The final comic book work of artist Jack Cole was in Web of Evil.[4] Web of Evil themes include #1 (morphine use), #5 (electrocution), #14 (old witch swipe), #17 (opium drug propaganda), and #18 (acid-in-face story).[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b The Classic Era of American Comics, Nicky Wright, Contemporary Books, 2000, Pg. 178.
2. ^ Web of Evil, Comic Values Annual 1999, Antique Trader Books, 1998, Pg. 431.
3. ^ a b Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Gemstone Publishing, May 2002, Pg. 837.
4. ^ Jack Cole and Plastic Man: forms stretched to their limits, Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd, Chronicle Books, 2001, Pg. 93.

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